Rita Volk Quotes
High school is such an awkward, difficult time, and I think a lot of people can't wait to explore the world because it's such a bubble.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
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I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it.
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When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
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The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.
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The government is what you've got. Politics is what you want.
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I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you really get to see small-town America.
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I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.
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Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.
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Unfortunately, Republicans repeatedly waste taxpayer time and money, and even shut down the government, in efforts to repeal ACA. We simply cannot afford this kind of dysfunction.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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There's nothing more difficult than a line.
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High school is such an awkward, difficult time, and I think a lot of people can't wait to explore the world because it's such a bubble.
